Teamster Corporate Campaign Pressures Coke

April 2, 2007: Coca-Cola has been stepping on Teamsters’ rights—attacking members’ healthcare and pensions and threatening to eliminate union jobs. Now our union is stepping up a corporate campaign against Coke.

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Starbucks’ Union Busting Leaves Bad Taste

Starbucks has once again fired one of its workers for being a union activist. In early August, Starbucks barista Daniel Gross was fired for his union organizing, making Gross the fourth such firing in less than a year. Starbucks has been engaged in an illegal union busting campaign for over a year.

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Dump Non-Union Verizon Wireless

Advocates of workers' rights are urging mobile phone users to support Cingular and pledge not to support Verizon.

Cingular supports its workers' right to join unions by honoring neutrality and card check agreements with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Verizon has resisted efforts by its employees to organize with CWA and has refused to honor its neutrality agreement with the union. Workers attempting to unionize have been laid off, harassed and subjected to "captive audience" meetings.

If you are a wireless user, you can exercise your consumer power by "raising the bar" for workers with Cingular rather than "hanging up" on workers' rights with Verizon.

(Courtesy of labornotes.org)

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